I've been having problems with the computer randomly shutting down which has lead me to believe that I may have a voltage or memory setting improperly configured. Since I don't know anything about voltages, I've been using the BIOS defaults, but I'm not sure if they're correct. I'm not looking to overclock my board, I just want the best and most stable performance I can get. Here's what my BIOS settings say:

I tried raising the voltage and the computer wouldn't boot (it kept turning off during the BIOS splash screen). Is there something else I need to tweak when changing the CPU VCORE voltage?

I didn't try it without VDroop yet however (what is that and do I need it?).

On the PC Health screen there was on voltage (CPU VTT Voltage) which seems to go between 1.19V and 1.20V. I'm not sure if this is a big deal or not. Everything else was steady.

Could it be a dying power supply? It's only a year old, but I suppose it could be going bad.

Tempest

Vdroop is how the voltage is delivered, i would keep it on, it provides more stable voltage to the cpu and is easier on the cpu, however there are people that are going to argue about it forever. I do not see what power supply you have but it is not the problem 9 of 10 times

I was reapplying the heatsink to my processor the other night and afterward when I was in the BIOS monitoring the temperatures I noticed that the VCORE was at 1.2 now on the Auto setting. I have no idea what I did, but it changed. Now when I set the voltages to the values suggested the system is stable an working fine. Odd, but I'll take it.